The huts that wouldn't go away: Alaska adopts the hut

Abstract

Alaska was no different from the rest of the country in terms of a need for permanent housing after World War II, but it had an added burden. In addition to its own soldiers returning home from war and starting families, many men stationed in the territory now wanted to make Alaska their new home. These men found Alaska so alluring that they returned home just long enough to gather their families and bring them north. © 2005 Princeton Architectural Press.